Access Control Lists provide a means of sharing content with specific users or user groups.
Any user with permission to create Access Control Lists can create a special web link in the share panel that allows selected users to view the content being shared...
New content is uploaded to the Planet eStream website using the Add Media Utility.
Files are Uploaded, converted to a streaming media format
(H264 Video + AAC Audio), and then published onto the system...
All content added to the Planet eStream Solution can be made subject to approval.
The newly added content is not immediately made available to end-users - it is placed
on a list of items pending approval, to be checked and approved (or declined) by..
The Planet eStream Blackboard Building Block provides a quick and easy way of adding
Planet eStream content to your Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment. The Building Block
can be used to add the following types of Planet eStream content; Recordings, Quizzes, Documents, Chapters,..
See also: Brightspace Plugin
Administration Help
The Planet eStream Brightspace Plugin provides a quick and easy way of adding Planet
eStream content to your Brightspace Virtual Learning Environment. The Plugin can be..
See also: Canvas Plugin
Administration Help
The Planet eStream Canvas Plugin provides a quick and easy way of adding Planet
eStream content to your Canvas Virtual Learning Environment. The Plugin can be..
Please note: Change Password is only an option for
non-anonymous built-in users of the Planet eStream Website. If you were not prompted
for a username and password when initially accessing the website, or if you are
logging-in using..
Chapters are marker points within a recording, allowing you to quickly jump to
points within the video/audio playback.
Chapters can overlap and a recording can have an unlimited number of chapters.
How to Add a Chapter..
Any user with permission can add comments to recordings, Playlists,
live broadcasts and Photosets within the Planet eStream system.
Notes are similar to comments except that Notes are private and cannot be viewed by..
The Planet eStream website allows you to delete content that you own, content that
you have added yourself, or content within a Publishing Policy for which you have been granted the Can
Delete permission...
Recordings can be downloaded from the Planet eStream website to your local PC.
Playlists cannot be directly downloaded, as they contain an assortment of different media.
How to Download a Recording
From the Planet eStream Homepage, search for the Recording that you..
Categories are a powerful feature of the Planet eStream website. They are used to group similar/related content together, organising the content, and making navigation easier.
This page contains information on editing Categories. For help on viewing Categories, please see the..
The layouts of the following pages on the Planet eStream website are customisable:
The Planet eStream Homepage
The Main Category Page and Each Category's Page..
A Playlist is a collection of individual audio/video items from the Planet eStream
website, grouped together as a single entity. Playlists can contain a mix of; Freeview TV Recordings ,
Standard Recordings , and Chapters ...
This page provides information on editing the details and settings of Recordings.
For information on physically editing Recordings to remove or to extract portions of the video, please see the Editing Video Help Page .
For..
SlideShows can be used to synchronise individual slides to a recording. For example,
a lecturer may record and upload a presentation to Planet eStream. The lecturer
can then upload the PowerPoint presentation used for the lecture and set each slide
to be displayed at a specified time within the..
Cut together your own video resources for use within a particular class activity or event, combine clips from multiple videos, remove adverts or unwanted sections from TV recordings, or simply neaten
up videos with the built-in online editor.
The multi-track video editor also..
A ERA Licence permits educational establishments to use recordings of broadcasted
content for non-commercial educational purposes, within the establishment's premises and to authorised users within the U.K. over the internet*.
* Please ensure that users..
Any recording, Playlist, or Photoset can be added to your favourites.
For details of how to manage your Favourites, please see the MyHome Help Page .
Please note: Favourites are not available if you are logged-in to the Planet eStream website anonymously...
See also: Planet eStream Firefly Plugin
Administration Help
The Planet eStream Firefly Plugin provides a quick and easy way of adding Planet
eStream content to your Firefly Virtual Learning Environment. The Plugin can..
The Planet eStream Freeview Scheduler is a fully featured TV recording utility,
allowing users with permission to schedule the recording of forthcoming television
programmes, record programmes that have already aired, create series-links, search..
The Planet eStream Frog Plugin provides a quick and easy way of adding Planet eStream content to your Frog Virtual Learning Environment.
Activating Planet eStream integration within Frog is handled by Frog Support.
Please contact..
Usage of the Planet eStream Soluton is subject to the Planet eStream Terms of Use .
The following licences apply to third party components utilised by Planet eStream:
Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode..
The Planet eStream Media Player is a fully featured, dynamically resizable video
and audio playback component.
The Media Player Explained..
Planet eStream supports adding content using mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones
and Android devices.
For help on adding content via non-mobile devices, please see the Adding Media Help Page ...
Please note: The Planet eStream Moodle Repository plugin has been superseded by the new Planet eStream Text Editor Plugins.
If a Planet eStream icon appears within the text editor in Moodle then please see the following help document
Moodle Text Editor Plugins ...
The Assignment Submission Plugin provides the ability for Teachers/Lecturers to create an assignment within Moodle and for
students to upload video/audio content in their assignment submission.
Assignment submissions added via Moodle are converted into a streaming media..
The Planet eStream Moodle Text Editor Plugins provide a quick and easy way of adding Planet
eStream content to your Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. The Plugins can be used
to add the following types of Planet eStream content; Recordings, Quizzes, Documents, Chapters, Playlists,..
MyHome is your personal area within Planet eStream.
Within your MyHome area, you can:
View your Homepage.
Edit your Public Page .
Manage the media that you have added to the Planet eStream system.
Manage any content that you have submitted..
All content on the Planet eStream system has an owner. Where a user owns an item,
they automatically have rights to search for, edit and delete the item, regardless
of any underlying permissions or restrictions that may apply...
The Planet eStream Connect service provides the ability for members of staff search over 1.5 million TV and Radio programme from:
The BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives
The Planet Connect Network, comprising of content shared by Planet eStream users
The Planet Connect Freeview TV Scheduler..
Publishing Policies are used to restrict the content available to users, based on a user's location. The default Publishing Policies are ContentLocal and ContentGlobal ,
although these may not be present on all systems.
For the purposes of this example, ContentLocal..
Planet eStream includes a Ratings system for content, allowing users to rate content from ½ a star up to 5 stars, in ½ star increments.
Please note: Star Ratings can be enabled or disabled in the Planet eStream Administration Console. If the options below are not available to you then Star..
When a user subscribes to another user, items that the user being subscribed to has added to the system and items that they have recommend are shown to the subscriber.
For details of how to manage your Recommended Items, please see the MyHome Help Page .
Please note: Your ability for you to Recommend is based on your permissions within Planet..
The Planet eStream Web Recorder provides basic video capture capabilities including screen capture and
capture from local devices such as webcams.
More advanced capture capabilities including live broadcasting are provided by the Planet eStream Encoding Application for Windows ...
The Planet eStream Encoding Application for Windows provides advanced video recording capabilities including:
Live Broadcasting.
Recording from local video/audio devices such as webcams...
The Planet eStream Website allows users to upload files that relate to recordings
stored on the system. For example, if the system contained a video of Romeo and
Juliet, the video could have associated media added such as; a text file or pdf..
RSS feeds provide regularly updated summaries of news and other content from the
web. Your Web Browser or RSS
feed reader would typically contain a number of RSS feeds, providing a convenient,
centralised snapshot of the latest content from your favourite websites...
To perform a basic search of the Planet eStream system:
Enter one or more keywords in the Search Box on the Planet eStream Homepage and click Search ...
The Planet eStream Plugin for SharePoint 2013 provides a quick and easy way of adding
Planet eStream content to your SharePoint environment.
The plugin can be used to add video files, audio files, Quizzes, Documents, Chapters, Playlists, or Photosets from your Planet eStream archive..
Planet eStream content can be shared on Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, reddit,
StumbleUpon, Digg, or any other website.
Please note: Your ability to Share / Embed content,
and the types of share available to..
The Planet eStream Website provides detailed statistics on the content stored on the system. Below is a breakdown on which statistics you
can view and what they show.
Statistics breakdown
Monthly Growth Over Time:..
Subscriptions are shown on your MyHome Page and provide an easy method of keeping up-to-date with new content added or
recommended by a user, or new content added to a Category.
For details of how to manage your Subscriptions, please see the MyHome Help Page .
Please note: Your ability for you to Subscribe is based on..
Planet eStream users now have the ability to quickly and easily translate a majority of the Planet eStream front-end interface into one of over 100 different languages.
See also: Translation Administration Help
How to Change Language..
Categories are a powerful feature of the Planet eStream website. They are used to group similar/related content together, organising the content, and making navigation easier.
This page contains information on viewing Categories. For help on creating and editing Categories, please..
Live Broadcasts consist of both broadcasts from live sources such as video cameras
and broadcasting Playlists.
For more information on broadcasting Playlists, please see the Editing Playlists Help Page ...
Watch Live TV using a standard web-browser on your Planet eStream system!
Users with permission can choose from a selection of channels chosen by your Planet
eStream system administrators and watch them, live!..
A Playlist is a collection of individual audio/video items from the Planet eStream
website, grouped together as a single entity. Playlists can contain a mix of; Freeview TV Recordings ,
Standard Recordings , and Chapters ...
This page provides information on viewing Recordings within the Planet eStream website.
For information on the Planet eStream Media Player, please see the Media Player Help Page .
For information on..
Slideshows provide a rich multimedia experience by synchronising the displaying of slides with video/audio playback. The slides are created by importing image files or Microsoft® PowerPoint documents, and are set to display at times specified by the user who created the slideshow.
This page contains information on viewing..
See also: Planet eStream Wordpress Plugin
Administration Help
The Planet eStream Wordpress Plugin provides a quick and easy way of adding Planet
eStream content to your Wordpress blog. The Plugin can be..
Your Public Page is your publically available page within the Planet eStream system.
Users with permission can edit the contents and layout of their public page using the Page Layout Editor .
See also: MyHome .
Managing Your Public Page..